i've been in the city a month, and it's finally starting to feel a little more comfortable. more familiar, i suppose, although i still get lost every day, forgetting what streets go where, and what time the streetcar stops, and which way to turn on st. charles to get to which coffee shop, or even which way goes downtown, uptown, riverside, lakeside.

i've been offered a job teaching photography after school to kids in a restoration school. i jumped at the chance, so excited, it's been so long since photography has been part of my daily life, and then it hit me. how do i teach photography without cameras? or a darkroom?

so i spent all day yesterday building a pinhole camera. and i would test it today but tropical storm humberto is raining down on new orleans right now, so i won't be able to get a proper exposure. i still need to finish building the shutter as well. when i figure it all out, and get prints, and my new scanner (which is so unbelievably exciting) i will post images.

also, i just got paid for my political work, and i can now develop all my film from tanzania. very exciting stuff. except i think i have to drive into metarie for that, i don't know how to navigate the suburbs yet.